Anavi ladies celebrated Children’s Day at Sarsuna Home with the children. We conducted a sit-and-draw competition, with two groups of 30 children each. For the youngsters, the topic was ‘A Village Scene’ and for the others, it was ‘Festival’. It was a one hour competition. We supplied the drawing paper, crayons and pencils. We declared 1st, 2nd and 3rd position winners for each group, alongwith consolation prizes. Afterwards, we provided lunch for everyone, including the teachers. The lunch consisted of rice, dal, fried potato, fish and chicken curry, and chutney. They enjoyed the time we spent with them throughout the day. It was a memorable experience for us.

On 26th September, we brought gifts to the children of Topsia creche as a celebration of Durga Puja. We gifted clothes to 25 children, all from underpriviledged families. Even the teachers were not excluded from the festivities. Seeing smiles on their innocent faces gave us immense happiness and hope, that we are indeed making a difference and contributing to society. Their promise to us that they would wear those clothes and enjoy the pujas made us even happier.

On 19th September, we visited Apanghar old-age home, Thakurpukur. We wanted to share the happiness of the Pujas with the elderly women of the home and gifted them sarees as a token of our love. We also gifted their care-taker with a suit-piece and the cook with a saree. The women of the home are often very lonely, and so we chatted and spent time with them. We also brought sweets to share with them. Owing to their old-age and inability to experience the outside world, the women of Apanghar were able to experience the spirit of the Pujas through us

Anavi visited Topsia creche on 28th august 2013 to give them monthly groceries. We spent time with them and gave them cakes.

Anavi visited Apon Ghar old-age home on 16th August 2013, to give them monthly groceries and spend quality time with them. We spent nearly 3 hours with them.

It was a great day at Ramola Bhawan where we provided lunch for the elderly. The lunch consisted of rice, dal, kakrol fry, shukto, fish curry, chutney and rasgulla. We also gave them tea, sugar and biscuits. Bernie and Kyle Mendonca, Meeta Chatterjee, Sangita Mukherjee, Himadri and Aloka Biswas, and Sharmila Kar were present for the event.

Anavi is providing relief and support to the survivors of the massive destruction in Uttarakhand caused by floods and landslides.

“It turned out better than expected, thanks to you all and especially you, Dr. Mukherjee”, said Maneesh Pradhan congratulating the Anavi members and Dr. Sanjeev Mukherjee who allowed us to use his clinic for the Blood Donation camp on the fourth anniversary of Anavi.

There are many school functions that we have attended and many that we have participated in as well. But this was different. Nabneer School, Chetla, a school for the kids from the less fortunate section of the society, organized their annual function on 14.05.2013.